gregladen | June 22, 2010I dunno. But Stephanie Zvan has worked out the Gun Protection Best Case Scenario. And it happens to be the latest post on Quiche Moraine so I know you won't want to miss this.
gregladen | June 22, 2010Brookhaven National Laboratory is a multipurpose research laboratory funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Located on Long Island, NY, Brookhaven operates large-scale facilities for studies in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, applied science, and advanced technology. The Laboratory's almost 3,000 scientists, engineers, and support staff are joined each year by more than 5,000 visiting researchers from around the world.
And, they now blog at Scienceblogs!!! Go welcome Brookhaven.
Yes, there is a trend. Scienceblogs is adding a number of institutions as bloggers. This is going to…
gregladen | June 22, 2010... Which might well be cold and dead because the firearm discharged by accident or was taken away from me by a home invader or I got depressed and shot myself.
Yes, folks, there are things to consider when contemplating private firearm ownership other than what you see on TV or read in the NRA propaganda. In the end, you need to ask yourself this question: How Well Does Your Gun Protect You?
gregladen | June 21, 2010Three peacekeepers have been killed in Sudan's Darfur region, officials say.
The peacekeepers, from Rwanda, came under attack in West Darfur, an official with the joint UN-African Union force told Reuters news agency.
They were guarding a new base under construction in an area where there have been attacks in the past.
More at BBC
gregladen | June 21, 2010This blog does more than sit there ... blogging. Sometimes it reaches out and does something real. And this year, GLB sponsored (in part) a runner in the Grandma's Marathon, in Duluth, MN.
Asha Shoffner ran the half marathon with a time of 1:48:14. This is Asha's Blog. The producers, writers, and staff of Greg Laden's blog are very proud to have had this opportunity.
gregladen | June 21, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 3, 2010) - Who said scientists can't dance? The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is proud to announce the third annual "Dance Your Ph.D." interpretative dance video contest. The contest, which is open to anyone with a Ph.D. or pursuing a Ph.D. in a science-related field, asks scientists to transform their research into an interpretive dance. Winners of each of the four categories (physics, chemistry, biology, and social sciences) will receive $500, then compete head-to-head for an additional $500 grand prize for best…
gregladen | June 21, 2010So, a while ago, Ben Zvanwas talking about doing something with the Bible, which would involve processing the text through some filters and recompiling it. This sort of thing has always interested me: Not recompiling the bible, but rather, textual analysis in general using the basic material stripped of intended meaning by classifying and ordering arbitrarily. What, for example, is the vocabulary of the Rosetta stone, or the Kensington Rune Stone (a probable fake Viking misssive on display in west-central Minnesota). Does the rune stone sample the lexicon of a particular time period or…
gregladen | June 20, 2010The next installment of "Everything you Know is Sort of Wrong" will be on the falsehood: "Humans evolved from apes." Or, if you prefer, "Humans did not evolve from apes." Either way, you're wrong. And right.
Confused? Great, then we're half way there! Here's the details. (This is part of the Skeptically Speaking broadcast.) Please post your questions and tune in on Friday.
gregladen | June 20, 2010... obviously, we're talking about emacs ...
I asked my email-pal: "UNIX or Windoze?". He replied "UNIX". I said "Ah...me too!".
I asked my email-pal: "Linux or AIX?". He said "Linux, of course". I said "Me too".
I asked him: "Emacs or vi". He replied "Emacs". I said "Me too. Small world."
I asked him: "GNU Emacs or XEmacs?", and he said "GNU Emacs". I said "oh, me too."
I asked him "GNU Emacs 19 or GNU Emacs 20"? and he said "GNU Emacs 19". I said "oh, me too."
I asked him, "GNU Emacs 19.29 or GNU Emacs 19.34", and he replied "GNU Emacs 19.29". I said "DIE YOU OBSOLETE NOGOOD SOCIALLY…
gregladen | June 20, 2010The blogger(s?) at You're Not Helping have tried, really tried, to help. But in such a ham-handed, erratic, uneven, capricious, ad hominem (in that, if you're PZ Myers you must be wrong) way, that they have polarized where they could have rallied, obfuscated where they could have clarified, and alienated where they could have allied. A classic case of alienation is that of commenter Oedipus Maximus. It would appear that Oedipus showed up on the YNH blog interested in what they were saying, engaged in the conversation, then somehow got the author(s) of YNH pissed off. He seems to have hit…
gregladen | June 20, 2010Assault charges, censure, impeachment. Throw the bum out.
And replace him with another Democrat, of course.
gregladen | June 19, 2010A former Rwandan army chief of staff, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, has been shot in South Africa and taken to hospital in a critical condition.
His wife told the BBC the couple had been returning from shopping when a gunman opened fire on the car.
She said it was an assassination attempt as there had been no demand for money or goods.
Lt Gen Nyamwasa, an outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame, fled from Kigali in February.
Details.
gregladen | June 19, 2010
In theory, zebras use their stripes in combination with their herding and flight behavior to confuse predators. The confusion probably makes it harder for the predator (e.g., a lion) to be able to avoid a damaging kick because the stripes make it difficult to tell where one zebra starts and the other ends.
Here is a dramatization of how this might work. Or not.
And then there's this:
I couldn't watch it to the end. How do things turn out?
gregladen | June 19, 2010... lunatics like Sharron Angle, Timothy McVeigh, Michele Bachmann and Rush Limbaugh think it's there to facilitate their idiotic temper tantrums. And a certain percentage of these horrible people carry out their violent fantasies.
Sorry, folks, but calling for a "second amendment remedy IS calling for someone's death by assassination. This woman should be locked up now.
gregladen | June 18, 2010Despite protestations to the contrary, The Vatican, the Church, and various and sundry governments and prosecutors and state attorneys, with the press watching and rarely complaining, continuously believe and occasionally assert, and always, always act as thought it is true, that the church has a special status that allows it to circumvent the law, and where necessary, blame victims.
From a BBC piece in reference to charges being brought against yet another Catholic priest:
The Roman Catholic Church in Italy has admitted that about 100 cases of paedophile priests have been reported to…